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Re: (meteorobs) Early Perseids/Eta Perseids
George Z.
Thanks for the update on the Eta Perseids. I look forward to seeing the
complete report. I hope to be doing more meteor observing as I am on vacation
for the next two weeks. I also hope to run a check on possible previous
activity this weekend and I will e-mail the results as soon as I find out
anything.
By the way, as I stated after your Xi Draconid observations, I love minor
meteor showers. You and Bob are doing a fantastic job monitoring the skies.
Although I am glad the NAMN is encouraging people to observe the major radiants
and has apparently inspired a lot of people to watch the skies, I would really
like to see some additional encouragement to watch for minor radiants. Major
showers are in the minority, and I might be going out on a limb here, but it
seems reasonable to assume that streams producing hourly rates of 5 per hour
should greatly outnumber streams producing 10 per hour, and, if we continue
this one more step, streams with rates of 1 per hour should greatly outnumber
streams producing 5 per hour. The problem is no one wants to spend a night
watching a stream with a rate of one per hour. What you and Bob are doing is
showing people that there is always some activity going on and that, for those
who are patient enough, discoveries of new or lost meteor showers (the latter
referring to Bob's recent post on the Alpha Cygnids) are possible.
Gary